Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: smp
11 Feb 2005Yahoo Search Blog has a great posting on how the Slurp Bot tries to conserve bandwidth by making use of compression and cache-control headers. [here]
As a Web performance fanatic, it is heartening to see that these folks have taken such care, and put such thought into their indexing crawler. They want it to be accurate, [...]
In: smp
8 Feb 2005Darren Barefoot posted about Google Maps.
Ummmm…wow. What more can I say? Clear precise maps. Great zooming. Clear directions. Took all of the best from everyone else and … well, wow.
Interesting comment from Jeremy Zawodny. And he works at Yahoo!, which had my go to map application for many years.
More comments from Geek News Central here.
John [...]
eBay woke up. What a concept! A real person answering your e-mails. Now, of course, the downside of this is that the e-mails will be answered in Bangalore and Mumbai, and will still be from controlled response scripts.
But still, it’s somewhat of a concession from eBay that they stumbled a bit…and that the response to [...]
In: RANTING
5 Feb 2005See Here.
Congrats Russell. I miss the valley and the cool companies that are there. But I am also not willing to move back to a place which is so hideously expensive, where the public education system is awful (parents are asked to supply basic supllies such as pencils, toilet paper, etc. because Propostion 13 has [...]
In: smp
2 Feb 2005Yahoo has started a new free blogging service for the Japanese market. [here]
Unusual to see Japan as a test market, but you have to think that someone at Yahoo Corporate is playing with the new Yahoo Blog Tool that will be released in the US.
Any comments from Yahoo! Blogging Team?
In: smp
14 Jan 2005Interesting how the Firefox Buzz Index at Yahoo matches the hit graph on my server.
Gecko Hits
Firefox Hits
Go Firefox!
In: smp
11 Jan 2005So far, YDS seems to be ok. A bit of hacking to get it to look into PST files (this should be a default!). However, I am re-building the indices (not indexes, please!) because the file search was having issues finding the string "doc". But my Outlook e-mail was all searchable (except for the PST [...]
In: smp
11 Jan 2005Go try it here.
Good luck!
In: smp
13 Dec 2004Read the bio of Dr. Usama Fayyad, the new former Chief Data Officer at Yahoo!.
I will stop whining about my work and try to do something productive instead. Thanks for the ego-crushing YSearchBlog.
Link: Yahoo! News – Hockey Night in Canada theme composer launches lawsuit against CBC.
Of course, the true Canadian National Anthem is this…Northwest Passage
Stan Rogers
Chorus:
Ah, for just one time I would take the Northwest Passage
To find the hand of Franklin reaching for the Beaufort Sea;
Tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage
And make [...]